Quotes About Ambition

RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR--[Written about 1870.]

THERE comes a time in every rightly-constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

que para que alguien, hombre o muchacho, anhele alguna cosa, sólo es necesario hacerla difícil de conseguir.

Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too.

just as men's misfortunes are forgotten in the excitement of new enterprises.

Explore. Dream. Discover.

To succeed in life you need two things: Ignorance and confidence

What a head for just a boy to have! If I had Tom Sawyer's head, I wouldn't trade it off to be a duke, nor mate of a steamboat, nor clown in a circus, nor nothing I can think of.

To live a fulfilled life, we need to keep creating the 'what is next' of our lives. Without dreams and goals, there is no living, only merely existing, and that is not why we are here.

Without dreams and goals there is no living, merely existing, and that is not why we are here.

Stay away from people who belittle your ambition, small people do that, but great people make you like to be great!

Without writers fooling themselves about what their books might accomplish there would be no books at all.

The road to medical school started with a job mowing lawns I was far from sure I could handle.

Tom gets by, Navidson succeeds. Tom just wants to be, Navidson must become. And yet despite such obvious differences, anyone who looks past Tom's wide grin and considers his eyes will find surprisingly deep pools of sorrow. Which is how we know they are brothers, because like Tom, Navidson's eyes share the same water.

He loved more than anything to fly. His sole conflict was with gravity.

Do not entrust your future to the limits of your stride.

I lost sight of those dreams.

I'd rather chase the sun than wait for it.

She was a girl with a mountain to climb.

There was once a strange, small man. He decided three important details about his life: 1. He would part his hair from the opposite side to everyone else. 2. He would make himself a small, strange mustache. 3. He would one day rule the world. ...Yes, the Fuhrer decided that he would rule the world with words.

As always, she was carrying the washing. Rudy was carrying two buckets of cold water, or as he put it, two buckets of future ice.

I'm gonna hunt my life down and grab it.

Había una vez un hombre bajito y extraño que decidió tres cosas importantes acerca de su vida: 1. Que se haría la raya del pelo en el lado contrario a todos los demás. 2. Que se dejaría un pequeño y extraño bigote. 3. Que un día dominaría el mundo.

Stealing it, in a sick kind of sense, was like earning it.